The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The best government is the least government. In some areas, I'm libertarian. I don't subscribe to any one party; they are all bad.
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.
The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.
We need a government that is what we are at our best. Smart, efficient, pragmatic and compassionate.
The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that of the adoption of the Constitution by the states.
That government is best which governs least.
Maybe it's my libertarian philosophy: but being in government is hard.
Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.
In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism.